Lightrains Blog

Lots of boring, repetitive, simple work that we honestly do not want to do ourselves.

Stellar Federation Server - Part 1/2

The Stellar federation protocol maps Stellar addresses to a unique name spaced string. It’s a way for Stellar client software to resolve email-like addresses such as name*your_domain.com into account IDs like: GCFFPIFOYY7Z...TK6T32V37KEJU. Stellar addresses provide an easy way for users...

Stellar Consensus Protocol

Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP) is an open Byzantine agreement protocol resistant to Sybil attacks, proposed by Stellar foundation. It allows Internet infrastructure stakeholders to reach agreement on a series of values without unanimous agreement on what constitutes the set of...

How to setup PIVX masternode on Ubuntu

A masternode is a server on a decentralized network. It can be uses to complete unique functions which ordinary nodes can’t. It can be used for features like direct send/instant transactions or private transactions.

Lightning Network - What and Why

The problem with bitcoin blockchain network is scalability. The block size in a blockchain is limited to 1MB, every block is created in every 10 Min and only 7 transaction per second. Lightning network introduced to resolve this problem, there...

Engineering ICO fundraiser platform

We engineered this easy to use investor dashboard to let you publicly sell your tokens in a safe and easy way, assisting both in the pre-sale and sale phases.

Music Royalties Calculator

The Music Team Royalties Calculator is a framework where users can register and calculate the share or royalty revenues for each holder generated by different revenue streams for a given song or track, where the data is stored in the...